Chapter 057: He Xiang
Let’s talk about Chu Xinyu returning to Qingyou Garden, neither Qin’s mother nor Xiangmei were there, and there was only the painting in the room.
Danqing hurriedly poured a cup of tea for Chu Xinyu. Lan Yi took the tea and tried it with a silver needle. She felt relieved to give it to Chu Xinyu when she saw that it had not changed color. After tonight, Lan Yi was too cautious. She was not at ease with others except herself and Danqing. Water is the most likely to be drugged by others. It doesn’t mean it’s not the third time.
"What happened? I saw Sister Xiangmei running back crying. Later, Mama Qin came and took her away. Did Sister Xiangmei make a mistake?"
Danqing didn't go out, and didn't know what happened. Xiangmei was the most powerful maid around the eldest lady. She was usually very arrogant and had never seen her look embarrassed like she was just now.
Lan Yi briefly talked about what happened tonight. Danqing is now the girl's maid, so as not to be unclear about the situation and be exploited when she returns to the mansion.
Although Danqing felt that the eldest lady had done too much, she couldn't help but worry, so she said, "Miss, don't blame me for being too polite. Although Xiangmei's eldest lady's maid, she is Madam Zhu's cousin-niece. Madam Zhu loves her very much. If she has anything to do, I'm afraid that Madam Zhu will blame you for your fault. Madam Zhu is the old lady trusts the most. If she gives you eye drops or makes some tricks in front of the old lady, I'm afraid you will suffer."
Danqing is so smart!
Chu Xinyu smiled slightly and said, "So I didn't directly penetrate the matter. Except for I didn't get into their trap, I didn't do anything to Xiangmei. Instead, the eldest lady kicked the iron plate this time. She always wanted to cling to the powerful and powerful like the Duke of E's mansion, but now Xiangmei is rude in front of the Duke of E's wife. She is the maid of the eldest lady. How does the maid's performance directly affect the face of the master? How do you think the eldest lady will react?"
Danqing said, "This is called stealing chickens and losing rice. The eldest lady must hate Xiangmei to death, but because of Madam Zhu, she can't do anything about Xiangmei, but Xiangmei will definitely not be reused from the eldest lady in the future."
Thinking of Xiangmei not being favored by the eldest wife in the future, she couldn't help but be happy. She thought this way because she was a little ill-intentioned. Who told Xiangmei to bully her before because of her identity, and even scared her in the evening?
Unlike Danqing, Chu Xinyu didn't care about Xiangmei. She was just a maid and didn't catch her eye. If she wanted to fight, she would fight with people of the same level. She would play tricks with people who were inferior to her, which would be extremely stupid.
But thanking them, she gave her unexpected gains in her trip to Longhua Mountain. She ordered Lan Yi, "Go and see if there are any remaining fragrant powder in the incense burner?"
Before Lan Yi could get off, Danqing said, "When Mama Qin came to take Xiangmei away just now, she accidentally knocked the incense burner down. Seeing that the ground was dirty, I swept it away." She looked at Chu Xinyu nervously, "Miss, did I have something broken?"
Chu Xinyu shook his head, "No, I just want to make sure something." After thinking about it, he ordered her, "You go and get a basin of water, I want to wash my face."
When Danqing went out to fetch water, Lan Yi took out a bag of things from her arms and handed them to Chu Xinyu and said, "I was so cautious at that time. When Xiangmei was not paying attention, she took off her body. Did the girl doubt something?"
"Yeah." Chu Xinyu took it and opened it, leaned in front of his nose and smelled it, then took out a bag of incense from his bag and put it with Hexiang together. "That's right, it's this smell. I pushed Miss Zhao San three years ago before I fell into the water, and I smelled this fragrance."
It's just that it's a bit long, and she's not sure about it before, but now she's very sure.
At that time, everyone was eating and playing in the same room. Somehow, she suddenly became flustered and became inexplicably irritable. Later, Chu Jiaqi suggested going outside to play, and then the two quarreled over the fact that they stepped on their skirts, and Miss Zhao San came to persuade them to fight.
At that time, they were standing by the lake. Miss Zhao San's words helped Chu Jiaqi, which made her feel very annoying. In fact, she was very clear at that time, but her hands and head were not controlled, and she pushed Miss Zhao San into the lake in front of everyone.
She was criticized by everyone, but she couldn't say anything about her pain, but in her subconscious, the fragrance was deeply remembered. However, at that time she never thought that she would be controlled by this fragrance. She thought it was her impulse, so she didn't argue a word and accepted the punishment from her family.
Lan Yi secretly thanked: "Fortunately, we have seen through the incense bag given to you by the eldest lady, otherwise we will fall into their trap tonight."
The fragrant powder of Xiangmei Burn is made of mugwort, Huoxiang and Wu agarwood, but at the same time, it is added with a live tail fragrance. This fragrance is light and used with mugwort and Huoxiang. People who are not very sensitive to smell cannot smell it at all.
If the live tail fragrance is used alone, it is just an ordinary spice, but once it is inhaled into the body with the fragrance from the scented bag of the eldest lady to the girl, it will cause inexplicable emotional disorder and a bad temper. The more you stay in a room where the air is not circulating, the more depressed and manic your chest will be.
Xiangmei burned the incense in the house with the purpose of affecting the girl's emotional fluctuations and then going out. Therefore, in order to cooperate with Xiangmei, the girl deliberately proposed to go out for a walk and digest food after dinner. Under Xiangmei's opposition, she pretended to be irritable. Xiangmei was indeed fooled and thought the girl had been involved in their trap.
The duration of the live tail fragrance is relatively short, at most about half an hour, but it is enough for all the things they planned to happen. In order not to ruin the girl's reputation, they should not stay where they are waiting for Xiangmei to bring people, and they cannot admit that they have met the Dingtu.
Lan Yi thought about it and then said, "Since the girl had smelled this incense more than two years ago, I guess the matter at that time was also the premeditation of the eldest lady. Her purpose was to kill you with the hands of others. But I don't understand why the eldest lady at that time could not tolerate you, and why didn't you hinder her?"
Chu Xinyu was silent for a while and said, "If I die, all the dowry left by my mother to me will be returned to the eldest son's house, and the dowry left by my mother to me is rich enough to tempt her greedy heart."
When my mother married her father, her aunt was favored in the palace. Her mother was her only sister. In addition, her grandfather was an important official in the cabinet and had made contributions to the dragon. Naturally, the emperor gave a lot of rewards.
The grandfather only has two daughters. The second daughter is married, and the dowry can be said to be Shilihongzhuang. Now that the eldest brother is gone, she is the only heir of her mother's dowry. Who is not moved by this large amount of property?
"People's greed cannot be satisfied. If she fails to design it once, there must be a trick. Will it be her doing the shocking horses we come back in the market?"
"No, it's not her." Chu Xinyu denied it with certainty, "At that time, she wanted to use my marriage with the Duke of Ying to establish a relationship, and she would not kill me halfway. Didn't it mean that the third prince of Jiang died even with two fiancées? At most, her plan will send someone to kill me after the marriage is settled. If something happened to me at that time, she would blame the Duke of Ying for the Duke of Ying, and maybe she would use this to threaten Duke of Ying to achieve her goal." As for what her purpose was, she would definitely find out.
"I heard you say that, it seems that there are still a group of people who want to kill you?" Lan Yi actually wanted to say, "Who did the girl mess with you before?" How could she bother you like a dog skin plaster.
Chu Xinyu was silent. Apart from Yuan, who else would want her to die? Did she offend someone she had offended before? Then who had she offended before?
"Girl, ask you a question." Lan Yi interrupted her contemplation. She didn't want to ask this question at first, but she still couldn't help but speak. "Will the eldest lady mix the incense?"
Chu Xinyu shook his head, "I don't know this, why are you asking like this?"
Lan Yi was about to say something, but Danqing came back with a copper basin and fetched water. The topic of the two ended. It was not that she didn't believe Danqing, but that she didn't participate in some things, and she was afraid of scaring her when she said it.
When Chu Xinyu was washing her face, Danqing stood by and said, "I just met a man from Qin's mother outside. She said that Qin's mother took Xiangmei to the manor at the foot of the mountain. She was afraid that you would not know anything, so she asked you to wait for Qin's mother to go up the mountain tomorrow to fulfill her wish."
Lan Yi couldn't help but sneer, "This mother Qin is really troublesome. What if she just goes up the mountain tomorrow afternoon, wouldn't that delay the girl's time to return home?"
hold up?
Lan Yi looked at Chu Xinyu, and Chu Xinyu shrugged, maybe he wanted this result.
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A certain young master: He said that his wife would meet me when she went out, why didn’t she meet me yet?
Lanlan: Tomorrow, you come to Longhua Temple to visit, and you might actually meet it.
That's right, our male protagonist is about to come out.
Chapter completed!